{Possible Books} gathers works by 24 authors from 9 countries. Combined by affinity, by contrast, by chance, this heterogeneous collection of photobooks reflect a plural community of independent authors and their possibilities of production today.

Vivian Maier made more than 150,000 images in three decades, but has never published. Her story raises questions about the frontiers between amateur and professional artists and the democratization of photography in the times of smartphones.

In this peaceful beach North of Rio de Janeiro, a merciless erosion process has swallowed over two hundred buildings by the seashore. An ephemeral landscape frames Bambu's journey in search of his own particular paradise.

Borges:
The Complete Works/Obras Completas consists of a pair of
word-searches – one in English and one in Spanish – each
containing the entire literary output of Jorge Luis Borges.
More than thirty thousand words in each language were encoded in
boards 600 characters wide by 450 tall with the help of software
written for this project. On going since December 1st,
2012, an online audience have been circling words from Borges's
writings on the project's web-site, at borgeslibrary.comBorges's
stories tackle our ludicrous search for answers to the questions that
have haunted humanity for millennia: the meaning of life, the matter
of purpose, our origins and destiny. In The Library of Babel, an
intangible Universe (the Library) is unfolded by the combination of
only a few recognizable signs (the alphabet). The Argentine writer
invites us to contemplate “the variation of the 23 letters”. In
Borges: The Complete Works/Obras Completas, his
entire fictional universe is self-contained in the rigidity of the
grid; meanwhile, its enormity will illustrate the inevitable failure
of exhausting all the possibilities.

Grand Central Terminal was an
installation juxtaposing hundreds of pictures taken at New York's
landmark-terminal. Setting the camera on a tripod, from a single
stand-point, I mapped the three-dimensional space and divided it into
smaller areas, focusing on one square at a time. I had an assistant
at the Terminal's floor, asking people to pose for the camera.

Later on I printed several pictures from each individual
square and installed them on the walls to the overall effect of
re-constituting the whole visual space of the Terminal – although
in a ruptured, multi-layered fashion.

In the short-story The Library of
Babel (1944), Jorge Luis Borges evokes the image of an intangible
universe (the Library) unfolded by the permutation of only a few
signs (the Alphabet). Borges’s archive is total: in its conceptual
universe, all possibilities are latent.

In The Library of Babel (2013), words cease to stand for what
they mean; they are disassembled into their basic units: letters of
the alphabet. Every character in the story –including punctuation–
was arranged on a grid, giving form to a gigantic word-search
diagram. Depending on how far one stands from it,
the block of text begins to read as an image.

Riocities (2011) comprises montages with photographs from Rio de Janeiro, both from my archives and from historic public collections and the web. These pictures document the accelerated process of transformations the city has been going through, aiming to host major international events in the near future. Against a backdrop of social inequality, huge investments are being made in order to rebrand Rio as “The Marvelous City”, image worn out throughout the last decades by an unconcealable escalade of urban conflict.